Reviews / Articles - Stargate Atlantis Season 5

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SGA - SciFi Pulse Blog: SGA - No Little Sister To Predecessor:


From the SciFi Pulse blog:

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Stargate: Atlantis - No Little Sister To Predecessor

August 8, 2008 - 10:45 am

By Dr. Joe Di Lella

At this year’s 2008 Comic Con, Brad Wright (co-creator and executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atantis) admitted to the standing-room only audience that he secretly believed cancellation for the original series was always “just around the corner - but it never came.” Wright, whose first series lasted ten years, added that as a TV executive you “can’t count on failure, so you just have to keep plugging away” until the network drags you away kicking and screaming.

Wright takes the same approach to SG-1’s sister series, Stargate Atlantis that embarks on its fifth season on the SCI FI Channel.

**snippage**

Brad Wright smiled broadly when asked about the possibility of additional spin-offs of the popular series. “Stargate Universe has been close to happening [in the past] . . . If you like us, we’ll do our best to create more quality television, but for now, we want to focus on Atlantis because there are a lot more stories to tell.”

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This is what the internet forum is for dude. You have people who are going to praise it before it airs and people who will say it will be horrible before it airs. I bet there are people that rate an episode a 1 = (Terrible) before they even watch it. Such is life on an internet fan forum.

Funny about Woolsey, some people are apologizing and saying they were wrong about Woolsey and actually like him.

and vice versa

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SGA - SciFi Channel's September Schedule NEW Episodes:

From the SciFi Channel's schedulebot, the September NEW Stargate Atlantis episodes:

09/05/2008 10:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 WHISPERS
09/06/2008 12:00 AM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 WHISPERS


09/12/2008 10:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 THE QUEEN
09/13/2008 12:00 AM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 THE QUEEN

09/19/2008 10:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 TRACKER
09/20/2008 12:00 AM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 TRACKER

09/26/2008 09:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 TRACKER


09/26/2008 10:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 FIRST CONTACT
09/27/2008 12:00 AM STARGATE ATLANTIS S5 FIRST CONTACT

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SGA - Aced Magazine - The New Side of Stargate : Atlantis:

From Aced Magazine (Miami, FL):

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The New Side of Stargate : Atlantis

Interviews - Actor

Written by Kait Silva

Saturday, 09 August 2008

Stargate: Atlantis has been a bonafide science-fiction stronghold since 2004. As the show progresses through its fifth season, the Pegasus Galaxy is changing more than ever. That means a new dynamic for writer and actors alike.

**snippage**

With this ability, Stargate has managed to keep itself fresh over the years initiating clever, stylized episodes that can be enjoyed no matter what genre the viewer prefers. This season, the writers are trying another new twist.

**snippage**

Aliens and babies and ‘90s throwbacks, oh my! It looks like we can expect one heck of a season for Stargate: Atlantis every Friday at 10 p.m. on the Sci-Fi channel. New episodes resume August 15th -- the replicators are back to wreak havoc once again!

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SGA - Multichannel News: Olympics Won't Alter Cable Schedules:

From Multichannel News:

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Olympics Won't Alter Cable Schedules

Basic Networks to Go Ahead With Originals During Beijing Games

by R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News, 8/11/2008

It'll be business as usual for cable networks during NBC's two-week presentation of the Summer Olympics which began last week.

Networks such as TNT and A&E Network — and even NBCU-owned networks carrying Olympics coverage, like USA Network — said they would continue to air new episodes of their top scripted series against NBC's primetime coverage of the Aug. 8 to 24 Beijing Summer Games. Network executives say they're not concerned about losing viewers to NBC's Olympics coverage, which drew 203 million total, unduplicated viewers during the broadcast network's two-week coverage of the 2004 games in Athens.

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NBCU-owned cable services such as USA Network, Sci Fi Channel and Oxygen are continuing to air original episodes of popular series. USA's 165 hours of mostly non-primetime coverage of men's and women's basketball, soccer, tennis, volleyball and water polo will not affect original airings of its highly rated scripted series, including Monk, Psych, Burn Notice and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, according to network officials.

**snippage**

While Sci Fi was expected to pre-empt new episodes of its Friday-night lineup of Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis against NBC's Aug. 8 coverage of the Olympics opening ceremonies, it will resume original episodes for both shows this week. The network also will continue with new episodes of its Tuesday night franchise Eureka throughout its parent company's Olympics run.

**snippage**

From May 5 through July 27, cable is averaging a 67 primetime household share compared to a 37 share for the broadcast networks.

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SGA - Titan TV - Episode Synopsis for 'Ghost in the Machine':

From Titan TV:

Stargate Atlantis

The Ghost in the Machine (New) 10:00 PM, 1 hr

Fri 08/15/2008

SCIFIW
Sci-Fi/Other
TVPG, English, Letterbox, 2008

While witnessing a demonstration of a digital ascender by a Replicator scientist to quiet their skeptisms, the Atlantis team is subsequently locked out; upon re-opening the door, they are met with someone they know from the past.

Cast & Credits: Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett, Rachel Luttrell

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Stargate Atlantis - Amazon: Exclusive Video Interview - Flanigan, Picardo & Staite:


http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....02&postcount=1

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From the SciFi Channel's Schedulebot:


10/10/2008 09:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 5) NEW episode
10/10/2008 11:00 PM STARGATE ATLANTIS (SEASON 5)


No episode name, but the first listing of a season five NEW episode in October.

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SGA - What To Watch: Friday Aug 15 '08:

From Zap2It:

What To Watch


Stargate Atlantis (Sci Fi)

10:00 PM/9c

Atlantis becomes host to the minds of disembodied Replicators, led by someone very close to the team.

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SGA - tvjots: Notable TV Thru August 17, 2008 :


From tvjots:

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Notable TV Thru August 17, 2008

We're Back - Stargate Atlantis

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Friday | August 15

Stargate Atlantis: Friday night's best original series returns after a week off with “The Ghost in the Machine.” An encore of the last new episode, “The Daedalus Variations,” airs right before at 9pm. [10pm EST/Sci Fi Channel]

**snippity doo-dah**

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SGA - Cinema Blend: Video Clip from 'Ghost in the Machine':

At Cinema Blend:

Stargate Atlantis Clip - Ghost In The Machine

We’ve got a clip from this week’s episode of Stargate Atlantis, which is titled “The Ghost in the Machine” and is set to air this Friday night at 10:00 p.m. on the SciFi channel. I’ve never seen an episode of this series so I can’t say whether or not the video is all that spoilery so read and view at your own risk.

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Stargate Atlantis - Newsarama: Talking SGA Season 5 w/ Joe Mallozzi:

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....31&postcount=1

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The MySpace Stargate Central Command site has a widget to countdown the days, hours, minutes until the next new episode:

I copied this code into a HTML/JavaScript window for my google blog

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="87" width="385" style="border: solid 0px black" data="http://otherlandonline.com/stargate/newSkin/flash/countdown.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://otherlandonline.com/stargate/newSkin/flash/countdown.swf" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="scale" value="exactfit" />
</object>


And this is the result:

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Stargate: Continuum / Stargate Atlantis - IGN Australia: Video Interviews:

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost....36&postcount=1

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SGA - DigiGuide (UK): Stargate Atlantis Returns Tues Aug 19:

From a DigiGuide (UK) e-mail announcement:

What to watch: Pacific Abyss, Stargate Atlantis returns, The X Factor, Hairy Bakers, Fargo, Olympics and more...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:56 PM

..You also won't want to miss the return of Stargate Atlantis. Back for its fifth series, the sci-fi series picks up from last season's cliffhanger. Lieutenant-Colonel Sheppard is mankind's only chance to rewrite history, but he's trapped under a collapsed building. Can Colonel Carter rescue him? It's a race against time, as the Wraith hybrids close in...


http://library.digiguide.com/lib/uk-tv-highlight/Stargate+Atlantis-4386/Science+Fiction+Series/

Mankind's only chance to re-write history

Stargate Atlantis, showing Tuesday August 19th on Sky One at 8:00pm

Stargate Atlantis returns for its fifth season, with plenty of stunning special effects, adrenaline-rushing action and blistering battles to look forward to.

The Atlantis expedition receives a new commander as Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) joins the team. Other new faces include Leela Savasta as Captain Alicia Vega (a member of the military contingent and of a new all-woman recon team), and Nicole de Boer as Alison Porter.

The new series picks off from where it left off. Far away in the Pegasus Galaxy is the lost city of Atlantis. It's inhabited by a specialist military contingent from Earth, who fight to keep various alien species at bay. Last season's finale saw Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) travel to an apocalyptic future where the human race had been wiped out. Now in the present, Sheppard is mankind's only chance to re-write history, but he's trapped under a collapsed building, along with several Atlantis crew members.

Colonel Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping) attempts to rescue them, but it's a race against time, as the Wraith hybrids close in...

Did you know? This season the programme will celebrate its 100th episode.